Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/-lā

This Proto-Tungusic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Tungusic

Alternative Reconstructions

  • *-la

Etymology

Novikova[1] further suggested that the locative case *-la comes from Proto-Tungusic *la (“place”).

Suffix

*-lā

  1. locative case marker; at, in, on.
    ‎*ʒūg (“yurt, house”) + ‎*-lā → ‎*ʒūgla (“in the yurt, house”)

Derived terms

  • *-du-lā

Descendants

  • Tungusic:
    • Northern Tungusic:
      • Even: -ла̄ (-lā)
      • Evenki: -ла̄ (-lā)
      • Negidal: -ла̄ (-lā)
    • Southern Tungusic:

References

  1. ^ Novikova, K. A. 1960. Očerki dialektov èvenskogo jazyka, vol. I [Sketches of Ewen dialects]. Leningrad: Nauka. pages 226-227
  • Benzing, Johannes (1955) Die tungusischen Sprachen. Versuch einer vergleichenden Grammatik (Abhandlungen der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse; 11) (in German), Wiesbaden: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz in Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag, page 84
  • Tsintsius V. I. Problems of a comparative grammar of Manchu-Tungus languages // USSR AS Bulleting. Literature and language department. 1948, 7 (6). pages 518—526.
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